June 4, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



363 



nientioneii. What can be the causei and what the preventivi- nf a 

 similar occurrence? Utah. 



Answer. — It is possible that there may have been some special 

 reason about which I know nothing-, and it is also possible that there 

 may be nothing more than unusually trying weather. If thetroulile was 

 the unusually severe winter, then the remedy is better protection, or 

 else cellaring. If there had been protection on three sides as well as 

 on top, the result might have been different. A windbreak on the 

 side or sides subject to severest winds might also help. 



Queenless Colony Uniting wltti a Neighbor's Different 

 Kind of Bees. 



1. My bees wintered well with corn-fodder set up on the north and 

 west sides. I lost two colonies this spring that were queenless. I 

 had two colonies in box-hives, apparently strong in April. They were 

 not more than .six inches apart. They seemed to be very neighborly 

 with each other. They would mix together and crawl from one hive 

 to the other. Finally, I discovered robber-bees lurking around one of 

 the hives, and so I examined the hive and there was not a bee in it. I 

 pried it to pieces and got 20 pounds of honey out of it. Don't you 

 think the bees deserted the hive and went with the other colony that 

 was strong the first of April ; 



2. You will find four bees wrapped up in paper in this letter. They 

 are honey-bees, but I do not know what species. Will you tell me 

 what kind of bee it is* I caught them gathering honey from ground- 

 ivy. There are quite a good many. They are like our honey-bee, but 

 they have long horns or smellers on their head, and they have no 

 stingers. There are two which are smaller than the other two, but I 



kept bees for 2.''i years and never 



think they are the same kind. I havi 

 saw any bees like them. 



Since 1 started this letter I have caught some more of that new 

 kind of bees, that have a white or yellow nose. Illinois. 



Answer.— 1. Your surmise is very reasonable. The colony prob- 

 ably was queenless, and when its mmr neighbor began appropriating 

 its stores it joined in with the rnurau.lcrs. The only thing that seems 

 strange about it is that you should tmve found any honey in the hive, 

 but perhaps you came upon them too soon for it to be carried out. 



2. I am sorry to say I'm not an cutomologist, only a practical bee- 

 keeper, and I don't know enough to be sure about different kinds of 

 bees except hive-bees and bumble-bees. 



Transferring and Introducing. 



1. I bought a colony of bees in an old red hive, the frames run- 

 ning crosswise in the hive. I wish to transfer into a new 10-frame 

 hive, painted white. To place it over the new hive so as to fit I will 

 have to turn it one-fourth around. Will the change of position and 

 color make any difference* 



2. How soon shall I put the queen in the new hive? 



MiSSOUKI. 



Answer.— 1. The white color and the quarter turn need not make 

 any great trouble, but if you mean that you intend to put the new 

 hive over the old one, with the view of having the bees work up into 

 the new one, my advice would be, " Don't." Drum the bees up into 

 the new hive so as to get the queen into it, then put the new hive 

 with the queen below the other hive, with an excluder between, and 

 the bees will start work below much better than if you put the new 

 hive above. 



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